Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-03-16

| of said convicts shall be 80 employed 1t any
time"
This amendment was also defeated.
F.! Mr. Powers of Houlton moved the previous
question, and the House ordered 1t.
Mr.. Alden of Winthrop moved that the
House adjourn. Lost.
| The previous question was then put, and
the bill passed to be eDgrossed.
Mr.. Barker moved to reconsider, and hoped
the motion would be voted down.
| Mr.. Condor of Friendship hoped the mo.
| ton to reconsider would prevail, as he had
risen to submit an amendment to strike out
Sec one, and insert provision that not more
than fifteen per cent of the products of any
one industry in the Maine State Prison shall
be sold in this State.
Mr.. Wiswell claimed that the gentleman
| from Friendship was out of order.
| The Chair ruled that the motion to recon
slider opened the whole question and debate
was in order.
The question being put. the motion to re-
consider was lost.
| Mr.. Warren of Winslow moved recess
until 400
Mr.. Lyons on of Vinalhaven moved to
amer nd by making it $50, and subsequently
| withdrew his amendment.
The motion for recess was then carried.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House reassembled at 400.
On motion of Mr.. Small of Steuben, Sen
| ate document sc. bill an act relating to Sec
| ton 26, chapter 80, revised statutes, relating
| to fines, was taken from the table and passed
| to be engrossed
On motion of Mr. Ryder, the House recon-
| sidered its vote non-concurring with the Sem
ate and refusing to receive bill an act to in
corporate the Canton Water Company.
The bill was then received, the rules were
suspended and it was considered without ref
erence to a committee. bill read three times
and passed to be engrossed
Mr. Ryder gave notice that he would object
to all private matters hereafter.
Mr.. Wright of Paris, presented bill an act
to amend section 6, chapter 504, private and
special laws Of 1885, as amended ty an act
approved February 8, 1887, stating that it
was desired to correct some oversights in the
act amending the original charter of the com.
pany.
Mr.. Ryder objected
The rules were suspended by vote of 80
to 10.
Mr.. Shaw raised the point Of no quorum
and called for the yeas and nays, and II voted
for :he call.
The chair ruled tina. as no quorum having
voted the question required on the motion to
suspend the rules, and the motion being put
the rules were suspended by q vote of 81 to
25.
On motion of Mr.. Wright, the rules were
further suspended, the bill was considered
without reference to a committee, read three
times and passed to be engrossed
On motion of Mr.. Jewett of Pittston. bill
an act to change the name of the town of
West Pittston, was taken from the table, the
vote passing it to be engrossed reconsidered,
the bill amended bv striking out the word
"Kennebec" and inserting the name "Ran-
dolph," and passed to be engrossed.
Bill an act relating to the compensation of
certain officers (secretary and deputy secre-
tary of state) came from the Senate passed
| to be engrossed under suspension of the
rules; the rules were suspended and the bill
passed to be engrossed in concurrence.
Bill an act to amend chap. 261, public law
of 1885, relating to migratory fish, passed to be
engrossed in the House, came from the SEN
ate non-concurred in and was referred to the
Committee on Fisheries and Game.
Ga motion Of Mr.. Hersey of Harpswell,
the House receded and concurred with the
Senate.
Mr.. Shaw of Portland, from the Committee
on Financial Affairs, reported ought to pass
in new draft on resolve in favor of A. H.
Sawyer. The rules were suspended, the re.
solve received its two several readings and
passed to be engrossed.
| MIR. Marley, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported ought to pass on
bill an act for the assessment of State tax
for the year 1887, amounting to 500 ,497. IL +,
| and bill an act tor the assessment of State
! tax for the year 1888, amounting to $649,
1911.
On motion of Mr.. Manley the rules were
suspended, the bills read three times and
passed to be engrOssed.
On motion of Mr.. Adams of Litchfield,
| under suspension of rules,
Ordered, That DR.. J. T. Wedgewood, on
account of his condition of health, be excused
from further attendance at this session, and
that the clerk be directed to make out his
pay to the end of the session.
Dill al dCl huultiOudl W CHAP. IL, revised
statutes, relating to the investment of the
funds of savings banks, came up for a first
reading and was read twice.
Mr.. Barker moved to indefinitely postpone
the bill.
Mr.. Fogg of Portland opposed the bill.
Mr.. Walton moved that the vote be taken
by rising vote.
The bill was indefinitely postponed by a
unanimous rising vote.
PASSED TO BIZ EXERCISED.
Bill an act relating to savings banks, [un-
der suspension of rulesl.
PASSED TO BIZ ENACTED.
| Bill an act to establish local boards Of
health and to protect the people of this State
from contagious diseases.
Bill an act to amend chap 70 of the re-
vised statutes, relating to proceedings in in.
| solvepcy and to prevent indirect preference,
Bill an act to incorporate the Winthrop
Water Company.
| Bill an act to prohibit the taking of migra-
tory fish from the Medomak River.
Bill an act to repeal the charter of the
Penobscot Valley Gorsedh of Bards and State
of Maine Branch Of the Druidic University
of America.
Bill an act to repeal the charter of the
Eclectic Medical College of Maine.
| Bill an act to repeal chap. 1872 OF the private
and special laws of 1878, entitled an act re.
lating to free high school in the town OF
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